The ultimate categorical independence ratio of a graph

SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 290-300

  Brown, Jason I ^a   Nowakowski, Richard J ^a   Rall, Douglas ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Independence number; Self universal; Ultimate categorical independence ratio

Indexed keywords

ABELIAN GROUP; AUTOMORPHISM; CAYLEY GRAPH; CONNECTED GRAPH; SPANNING TREE;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 0030369563     PISSN: 08954801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0895480194276909     Document Type: Article

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